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Over the last two weekends, Young People at Heart took 270 people comprising young people in care, their foster families and support networks, staff and their families, and friends and supporters of the organisation to two Pantomimes; Peter Pan at The Courtyard Theatre in Hereford and Aladdin at the Thameside Theatre in Grays, Essex. During …

Our Hereford team invited foster carer families and young people to a Halloween Party in a local Villiage Hall today. The hall was decorated for the occassion with spiders, bats and cobwebs. Foster carers, young people and staff entered into the spirit of the event by dressing up in Halloween costumes. The young people took …

Following successful foster carer recruitment events Essex and Herefordshire, it’s the turn of Yorkshire to be out and about recruiting foster carers. Would you like to find out more about fostering, or are you currently fostering and would like to find out more about fostering for a not-for-profit, family value fostering organisation? Come and visit …

Young People at Heart will be opening an office in Yorkshire in May 2018! Following the success of the Essex and Herefordshire offices, Young People at Heart have decided to open an office in Barnsley, Yorkshire. Sue Williams, an experienced and well respected Registered Manager in the region will lead the office. The office is …

Following the succesful opening of Young People at Heart in Herefordshire in September, and in keeping with Young People at Heart’s tradition of inviting young people, foster carers, potential foster carers, staff and their families to the Pantomime, we took 75 people to the see Sleeping Beauty at the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford yesterday. Foster …

Young People at Heart staff and foster carers spent a very enjoyable evening at the Mayor of Thurrock’s charity dinner last night, held in aid of local charities Contact the Elderly and the Thurrock Community Chest. We enjoyed a lovely meal and were entertained after dinner to performances of song and dance by the talented …

It was with great sadness that we learned that one of our foster carers, Linda Daniel, passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. Linda had been a foster carer for many years, and joined us from Time for Children two years ago. In a letter to staff and foster carers, Gary Cox, Founder of Young Peoiple …

Saturday 14th October marked our first Fostering Panel held in Hereford. Panel members, lead by Panel Chair Dr. Andrea Warman, made it to Hereford from London by train, (despite the dreaded weekend engineering works at Reading!) to hold a Panel meeting in our Hereford office for three foster carer households. Following the Panel meeting, we …

Dave Bailey, Fostering Manager at our new Young People at Heart office in Hereford, has experienced an unprecedented amount of interest from foster carers wishing to transfer to Young People at Heart from a number of other fostering organisations in the region, as well as applications from people wishing to become foster carers. Dave said …